Find repeated words, misspelt names and slow chapters
Galley counts and checks the whole book, and you decide what to change.
By the time you're revising, you've read the book so many times that you stop noticing mistakes. Galley runs checks for the things that are easy to miss, keeps a copy before anything changes, and can track your word count if you want it to.
Filler watchlist
Most repeated words
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
He waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.
* * *
“Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.”
Overused words
upon · 465 times
Doyle’s filler words counted per thousand, with the chapter each one peaks in, and the words he leaned on most.
Checks across the whole book
You can rename a character across every chapter at once, and Galley takes a snapshot first in case you want to undo it. It counts your filler words per thousand and shows which chapter uses each one most. It finds names spelled more than one way, so if Lestrade is spelled Lestrad once, it shows you where. It also checks for a mix of British and American spelling, inconsistent hyphenation and straight quotes. Dialogue is left out of those checks, because a character can say "colour" in an American book.
Read-through and Book at a glance
Read-through shows the whole book from start to finish without the sidebar or chapter breaks, the way a reader would see it. Book at a glance shows chapter lengths side by side, how much of each chapter is dialogue, and how long your sentences are. It's a quick way to find a chapter that drags.
“Quite so,” he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing himself down into an armchair. “You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.”
“Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.”
CHAPTER TWO
The Red-Headed League
I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door behind me.
“You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Watson,” he said cordially.
“I was afraid that you were engaged.”
“So I am. Very much so.”
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
He waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.
* * *
“Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.”
Read-through
The whole book
The book in one scroll, front to back and read-only, set the way a reader will get it.
Snapshots, milestones and the bin
Every chapter keeps a daily snapshot that you can compare with the current version and restore. Draft milestones let you save and name a version of the whole book, like "the draft I sent my agent", so you can open it again later. Deleted books and chapters stay in the bin for 30 days.
Goals and streaks
You can set a daily word target for each book, or not. There's a ring for today, a chart for the last two weeks, and a streak counter, and you can turn all of it off. Chapters can be marked as draft, revised or final, so you can see how much of the book is actually finished.
Tuesday, September 29
Good afternoon
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: 104k words in.
Daily words written
Continue writing
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1 open note in 1 chapter
Today
412 of 500
Day streak
2 days
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
He waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.
* * *
“Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.”
Momentum
412 of 500 today
The book you were last in, one click from resuming, with the goal you set. Goals are optional.
What's included
Click any of these for the bit of the docs that explains it.
- Read-through The whole book from start to finish, without the sidebar
- Read aloud Hear the book in a voice your computer already has
- Book-wide find & replace Rename a character across every chapter at once
- Consistency sweep Flags mixed spellings, hyphens, quotes and dashes
- Loose threads Characters who disappear, and timeline events the chapter never mentions
- Who speaks How the dialogue is shared out between your characters
- Word counts Live, per chapter and per book
- Draft milestones Mark a draft done, then see which chapters changed since
- Writing goals A daily word target for each book, if you want one
- Streaks & sessions What you wrote today, and across the last two weeks
- The dashboard Every book, and the sentence you left off on
- Progress per book How much of the book is draft, revised or final
More features
The writing room
You pick the trim and typeface first, then write on that page.
The story bible
Characters, places, a timeline and your research, in tabs beside the book.
Toolkit
Exports, preflight and the submission package are all in one menu.
Safe & Secure
Only you can read it, it’s backed up, and no AI is trained on it.